Category: Licensed Resources
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2015
The first set of records for two new monographic packages were sent out last month, for Business Expert Press and for the Oxford Literature Handbooks. Business Expert Press promotes itself as providing “… concise, practical, treatments of the topics taught […]
NewsBank Interface Upgrade
NewsBank recently released interface chances for the Access World News and America’s News Magazines databases — http://uclibs.org/PID/98452. Enhancements include: Searching • More navigators by which the content can be explored • Searches can be refined either before or after conducting […]
Ovid User Interface Enhancements
The OVID interface (UC’s current host platform for the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins titles) will be undergoing an interface upgrade on September 30, 2015, including changes to Journal Views (Journal Listings View [see below], Journal Title View and Journal Full […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Gunsho Ruiju Online
Nine campuses (all except UCSF) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Gunsho Ruiju Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/168427 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, SB and SC; on the JapanKnowledge platform) The Gunsho Ruiju series is […]
Informa Healthcare journals moving to the Taylor and Francis platform on September 1st
As of September 1, Informa Healthcare journal content will be hosted on the Taylor and Francis platform. This follows the transfer in management of the Informa Healthcare titles to Taylor and Francis in January 2015. Users should be automatically directed to […]
Readex Interface Enhancements, released August 19
Readex released changes to the Early American Newspapers and Early American Imprints databases on August 19, 2015. These changes affect the local databases only, and do not affect the larger Archive of Americana interface. Changes to these database interfaces include: […]
CDL Acquires New One-time Systemwide Resources in 2015
One of the goals for the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) in 2015 was to evaluate and ‘refresh’ the annual survey to bibliographer groups. The survey has been in practice since 1997 as the major source of campus priorities for systemwide […]
New Licensed Resource — Business Expert Press Digital Library (2010-2015)
All UC campuses now have access to Business Expert Press Digital Library (2010-2015). Note: Some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://uclibs.org/PID/276063; all campuses, on the IG Library Portal platform. SCP cataloged and distributed the individual ebook […]
DNSA is transitioning to the ProQuest search platform September 16th
The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) will transition from the Chadwyck-Healey platform to the main ProQuest platform on September 16. Both versions of the databases are available in parallel until that date at http://uclibs.org/PID/96899. Please note that users with a […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2015
Our major serial record distributions for July were for Open Access (508 titles) and EBSCO (40 titles). For monographs they were for SuperStar (577 titles), Springer (564 titles), IEEE (185 titles), Elsevier (139 titles), World Bank (110 titles), Alexander Street […]